Description

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From Britain's Royal Geographical Society comes a beautiful collector's box, featuring frameable prints and a paperback, that celebrates a century of distinguished expeditions through the visual material created by artists, photographers, expedition teams, and solitary travellers. The prints include watercolors by Thomas Baines, who joined Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition; early photographs of Yosemite by Carleton Watkins; and the artwork and photographs of Harry Hamilton Johnston in Africa.

About the Author

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Beau Riffenburgh is a historian specializing in exploration. He was formerly the editor of Polar Record, the world's oldest journal of polar research, and the head of the Polar History Group at the Scott Polar Research Institute. He has written numerous books, including The Myth of the Explorer (Oxford), a highly praised study of explorations and the press; Nimrod (Bloomsbury), the tale of Ernest Shackleton's grand attempt on the South Pole, and The Men Who Mapped the World (Carlton).